I read a lot of the introduction but I admit the math is a bit dense for me (no PhD in math ;)
"In order for a system of inter-combining elements to effectively understand the world, it should interpret itself and the world in the context of some array of simplicity measures obeying certain basic criteria. Doing so enables it to build up coordinated hierarchical and heterarchical pattern structures that help it interpret the world in a subjectively meaningful and useful ways" This makes perfect sense. Philosophically I think that the system should reduce the world in some context to essentialities which are ~= simplicities. My question centers around "effectively understand." While yes, it seems like simplicity would help understanding, does your paper (apologize for skimming a lot of the dense parts) tie in with understanding per se? So given a simplified view of patterns, how then does it understand? It seems like the understanding would "kick in" if and only if the situation was a simple as possible but no simpler. That helps but I think theory of understanding is still needed. On 9/3/20, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Radical overhaul of my paper on the formal theory of simplicity (now > saying a little more about pattern, multisimplicity, multipattern, and > the underlying foundations of cognitive hierarchy and heterarchy and > their synergy...) https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05269 ... it's much nicer > this time around > > Occam's Razor 2020 becomes: *when in doubt, prefer hypotheses whose > simplicity bundles are Pareto optimal* -- partly cuz this both permits > and benefits from the construction of coherent dual networks > comprising coordinated/consistent multipattern hierarchies and > heterarchies. > > This, I think, is the version of Occam's Razor that's really "as > simple as possible but no simpler" where complex cognitive processing > is concerned ... not coincidentally it ties closely w/ OpenCog's > multi-goal-based control system and Weaver's Open-Ended Intelligence > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to > live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same > time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, > burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders > across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T7f31810a817f8496-Mf16669853b746600990d0293 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
